Conceptual
village wyrdness among the rolling hills!
A concept album about
an undertaker and a gang of London villains set in a village between
the Cotswolds and Milton Keynes! Yep you heard right. The leader of
The Honey Pot and musical collaborator with Harmonic Distortion
favourite Crystal Jacqueline has concocted a song suite set in a
fictional English village. A seemingly normal world but scratch
beneath the surface and the strangeness of old Albion soon reveals
itself. Packed from start to finish with the sort of pastoral
eccentricity that went out of fashion when Mr. Barrett retreated to
suburban Cambridge, this album was apparently written as a bet. The
nature of that bet may not be known but the resulting LP means
everyone wins.
No-one would make the
claim for Icarus Peel as being a great singer, his voice more suited
to teaching geography than selling a song but that matters not and
indeed is almost the point, with the songs all delivered in a
straight, English folk story-over-style manner. Shifting between
gentle psychedelia, acoustic ballads and soft spacey rock, this is a
strange album for an even stranger year and a great tonic when the
real world's ugliness is too much.
Available on limited
edition black vinyl (250 copies) and as a 4 CD set housed in a
handmade individually numbered wooden box.
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